| Categories | Youth magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Final issue | 1992 |
| Country | |
| Based in | Berlin |
| Language | German |
| ISSN | 0323-5815 |
| OCLC | 924765429 |
Neues Leben (German:New Living; abbreviated asNL) was a monthly youth magazine which existed between 1953 and 1992. It was started inEast Germany and survived theGerman unification. It was briefly published in Germany until 1992.
NL was launched in 1953 and came out monthly inEast Berlin.[1][2] The magazine was modeled on the West German magazineBravo.[1] The target audience ofNL was East German youth.[1] Its publisher was theFree German Youth which was the official youth organization of the ruling party,Socialist Unity Party.[1] The goal ofNL was to reinforce the official views of the state among young people through articles about sex, relationships, pop stars and young workers.[1] During the early 1980s it featured a regular column for the readers who asked questions about sexuality.[3]
Ingeborg Dittmann was the editor ofNL from 1973 to its closure in 1992.[1]